Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-31

| ing the present law regarding the publication
| and distribution of the Supreme Court ant
Courts of Appeal reports by providing for thu
purchase and distribution of the first sixteer
volumes OF the Courts of Appeal reports a:
| the Supreme Court reports are now distrib
| uted.
/ NO. 81 (Mr BOOTH, amending section 1910 Of
! The Revised Statutes relating to witnesses
NO 81 (Mr Bodine), amending section 1854 OF
| the Revised Statutes by providing that either
| parent OF minor, not adiudged unfit, may be
| appointed guardian of such minor on giving
| proper bond and security.
! NO. oil tMr. Shelton), amending section 31Ss
| OF the Revised Statutes by providing that in all
cases where the defendant in actions in replevin
1 or claim and delivery OF personal property is a
nonresident of the county in which the suit is
| brought, service shall be made on him as under
like circumstances in suits by attachment.
NO. "a fMr. Robb), amending section 1866 OF
the Revised Statutes, by providing that any
person under sixteen years of age convicted OF
| any felony shall be sentenced to imprison-
ment in the county Jail not exceeding one year
| And provided further, that il any minor under
the age of eighteen years shall be convicted
and sentenced to suffer death, the Governor
! shall have the power to commute such sentence
to imprisonment in the penitentiary for term
not less than two years
No. Is tMr. Stone}, repeating section 3s4 OF
the Revised Statutes and enacting new sec.
ton in lieu thereof, giving the court having
jurisdiction or the judge in vacation the power
to appoint new assignee in case of a vacancy.
No. "a (Mr. Audrain), making it a mfsde-
meanor to allow diseased stock to run at large
when such fact is known to the owner
No. 81 (Mr. Knowles1, amending section $3.50
OF the Revised Statutes, and an amendatory
act thereof. approved March %, 1885, by author
lZlng guardians and curatorS to loan out the
money of their wards on personal security, ex-
cept in cases where the estimate is of greater
value than $500.
No. LAT fMr NOEL AMENDING secf;on 1894 Toe
the Revised Statutes, and amendatory act ap-
proved March 20, 1885, by providing that the de-
ploughing shall be mIsdemeanor.
substitute for No 172 committee bi1D. pro-
siu.g inas wherever tne term circuit courts
the same shall include ''courts of common
pleas, unless such construction would be in
consistent.
No. 1s1 CMr. Tate), exempting the superin-
tendents OF county poor-houses from jury
No. 1888 CMr Babcock), amending section e7ss
OF the Revised Statutes by providing that coun-
ty courts shall be prohibited from making re-
auctions placed upon real estate by the as
SCISSORS or boards of equalization.
NO. 192 (Mr. Sattenwhite), amending section
1164 Of the Revised Statutes, and amendatory
act OF March 81, 1888, by changing time of hold
ing courts in the Twentieth judicial circuit as
follows: In the county of Bollinger. on the sec
ond Mondays in March and September; in the
county of Madison. on the fourth Mondays in
March and September; in the county OF Perry
on the second Mondays in April and October: in
days in May and November, and in the county
OF st. Francois, on the third Monday in May
and November.
No. 1873 (Mr Kelly, amending section 1922 of
the Revised Statutes by providing that any
taxpayer OF town shall have one half the for
fixture of $50 for prosecuting the chairman OF
the board of trustees of such town for failure
to publish the financial statement as required
under article of chapter SO.
No. 24S (Mr. Curtis). amending sections 5000
and 1910 of the Revised Statutes to read as
follows:
SEC; 69o9-For the purpose of State County,
school and municipal taxation, merchandise
held by merchants and the raw material mer-
ehandise, finished products, tools, machinery
facturers, shall constitute a class separate and
SEC. 6910 All cities in this State having
population of over 100000 inhabitants are
authorized to levy for local purposes, upon the
property specified in the preceding section, a
levied by them real estate or other property
Tor the same purpose; and said reductions
may, from time to time, be arranged to apply
on both or either the tax rate for payments Of
valid Indebtedness or the tax rate for city pur-
poses. And in any such city where the rate of
the city tax is reduced as herein authorized
the rate of the school tax upon said class OF
property, by whatever authority such school
tax is authorized to be levied and collected,
each year. the same proportion to the ad valor-
EN- city tax upon the same property as the
school tax in said city, for the same year, upon
real estete, bears to the total ad valorem tax
upon real estate.
No. 264 amends section 1882 Revised Statutes
in relation to shooting at marks public
roads. -s
No. 294 (Mr. Curtis), amending section 1906
OF the Revised Statutes to read as follows:
Sec. 1906 Every person who shall knowingly
send or deliver, or shall make, and for the pur-
pose OF being delivered sent, shall part with
the possession of any paper letter or writing,
with or without name subscribed thereto,
signed with a fictitious name, with any
letter. mark or other designation, threatening
therein to accuse any person of any crime or
felony whatever, or to do any injury to the per-
SON or property Of any one with view or in
tent to extort or gain any money or property
of any description belonging to another;
and every person who shall publish or
threaten to publish any libel upon any
other person, or shall, directly or in
directly, propose to abstain from printing or
shall directly or indirectly offer
to prevent the printing or publishing of any
matter or thing prejudica1 to any other person,
with intent to extort any money security for
money or any valuable thing, from such or any
other person, or with intent to induce any per-
son to confer upon procure for any person
any appointment or office of profit or trust,
shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of an
attempt to rob, and shall be punished by i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding
five years.
No. sol CMr. Salisbury, to prevent gambling
under the guise of trading in stocks, bonds,
cotton, grain, provisions or other
and defining bucket-shops."
: This is the 'Bucket-Shopn bill.